Random encounters with the unusual

Anyone who has studied chemistry will be familiar with the name Joseph Priestley (1733 - 1804). Priestley was the clergyman chemist who is c...

Previously in this blog I have visited Knowlton Church and earthworks in Dorset, where a 12 th century Norman church resides within the ...

On the side of the A360 near the hamlet of Gore Cross in Wiltshire there is a small, easy to miss, memorial to an event that occurred near t...

The below memorial can be found on the White Horse Trail footpath in Wiltshire where it intersects the Woodborough to Pewsey Road, just to t...

As a resident of Wiltshire I was recently interested to learn that local people have in the past been called “Moonrakers”, a term that can b...

People who live outside of Wiltshire will probably have never heard of the Great Flood of 1841, which saw extensive flooding across parts of...

Alongside a section of the Fosse Way in Wiltshire, three standing stones surmounted by a cap stone can be found arranged in the style of an ...

Following on from my previous visits to the Westbury, Cherhill , Broad Town and Hackpen  white horses in Wiltshire, here is another of the c...

Weird Wessex: A Tourist Guide to 100 Strange and Unusual Sights is a journey across the English counties of Wiltshire, Hampshire, Dorset, S...

The pictures below show a grave in St Mary’s churchyard in the village of Odstock in Wiltshire. The grave belongs to a man named Joshua Scam...